2023-08-05 14:11:00
Individual cigarettes in Canada will from now on carry warnings such as “poison in every breath” and “cigarettes cause impotence,” she said. the governmentin an effort to make health warnings more difficult to ignore.
The measure, the first of its kind in the world, is part of a wide range of new tobacco legislation that will take effect on Tuesday, which will see tough restrictions in place for the next two years.
“Tobacco kills 48,000 Canadians a year,” former Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Caroline Bennett said when the rules were first announced. “The action is to be the first country in the world to put health warnings on individual cigarettes.”
The government says about 13 percent of Canadians smoke tobacco, which costs the public health system more than $6 billion annually. In 1965, for example, about half of Canadians smoked. However, with increasing public awareness about the dangers of smoking, rates have steadily decreased. Federal and regional legislation related to the sale, smoking, taxation and declaration of tobacco have also led to lower smoking rates among all age groups.
Canada was the first country in the world to require cigarette producers to put graphic warnings on cigarette packages in 2001. Over the next decade, indoor smoking bans were introduced.
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